If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
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You are a totally loved moral failure.
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The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.
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If you don’t feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.
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If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.
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We need to remember that we are saved by grace when we fail. But we need to remember it much more when we succeed.
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I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident.
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No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
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